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Aggression in Europe and Asia, 1930-1939 Timeline

  • Japan Invades Manchuria

     Japan Invades Manchuria
    japan invaded Manchuria on september 18 1931
  • Italy attacks Ethiopia

     Italy attacks Ethiopia
    The Second Italo-Ethiopian War, also referred to as the Second Italo-Abyssinian War, was a colonial war that started in October 1935 and ended in May 1936.
  • Germany occupies Rhineland

     Germany occupies Rhineland
    The remilitarization of the Rhineland by the German Army took place on 7 March 1936 when German military forces entered the Rhineland.
  • Japan invades China

    Japan invades China
    The Second Sino-Japanese War (July 7, 1937 – September 9, 1945) was a military conflict fought primarily between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan from 1937 to 1945.
  • Germany annexes Austria

     Germany annexes Austria
    was the Nazi propaganda term for the invasion and incorporation of Austria into Nazi Germany in March 1938. German spelling, until the German orthography reform of 1996, was Anschluß and it was also known as the Anschluss Österreichs
  • Germany takes Sudetenland

    Germany takes Sudetenland
    In the early hours of Sept. 30, 1938, leaders of Nazi Germany, Great Britain, France and Italy signed an agreement that allowed the Nazis to annex the Sudetenland, a region of Czechoslovakia that was home to many ethnic Germans.
  • Germany seizes Czechoslovakia

    Germany seizes Czechoslovakia
    On this day, Hitler’s forces invade and occupy Czechoslovakia–a nation sacrificed on the altar of the Munich Pact, which was a vain attempt to prevent Germany’s imperial aims.
  • taly conquers Albania

    taly conquers Albania
    The Italian invasion of Albania (April 7 – April 12, 1939) was a brief military campaign by the Kingdom of Italy against the Albanian Kingdom. The conflict was a result of the imperialist policies of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini. Albania was rapidly overrun, its ruler, King Zog I, forced into exile, and the country made part of the Italian Empire as a separate kingdom in personal union with the Italian crown.